Jaeger-LeCoultre is pleased to invite aBlogtoWatch readers to join us for an exclusive watchmaking class on December 1st, 2016, at the Penthouse of the Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA.
Carl F. Bucherer was founded in Lucerne, Switzerland, in 1888 and is based there ever since. It not only creates mechanical timepieces with one eye on traditional Swiss watchmaking and the other on contemporary design, they do this with their own in-house movements in some collections. With the introduction of their first Tourbillon movement in 2013, the family-owned brand is now ready to incorporate this into the next model: The Carl F. Bucherer Manero Tourbillon Limited Edition 2016.
New crowdfunded watch projects are so frequent as to be unavoidable, and standing out from the pack is difficult. Startup Montfort Watches manages to differentiate itself with the Strata, an automatic equipped with a 3D printed dial and scratch resistant case. Monfort was founded by hotelier Philippe Kuratle and Jeremie Senggen, a watch designer who founded Studio7h38, […]
By Roberta Naas
From world timers to tourbillons, today’s watches also often offer a stunning view of Earth from above. Here we bring you a look at three brands that interpret Earth in 3D beauty on the wrist.
Unless you have been in a coma for the past decade, you’re probably familiar with Max Büsser and Friends’ (MB&F) creations. Fueled by passion for the craft and unbridled creativity, the innovative horological lab played a pivotal role in the “indie” watchmaking rise. Out-of-the box thinking is the brand’s raison d’être. In 2011, when MB&F presented its first legacy machine (the LM1), a nod to watchmaking tradition, it had to be disruptive. And a few years later, when Irish watchmaker Stephen McDonnell and Max Büsser started to discuss about a perpetual calendar, the project brought to life another horological surprise transfiguring a century old complication into a sensational design. First launched in red gold and platinum, the MB&F Legacy Machine Perpetual is now available in white gold with purple or grey faces.
Speedmaster Professional 145.022 Casebacks When you look at this Omega Speedmaster Professional 145.022-71, there’s nothing strange at first sight. Just a nice and ‘ordinary’ Speedmaster Professional post-Moon. Dial, bezel, hands and bracelet, all correct. In fact, it is quite a nice example of a Speedmaster Professional 145.022-71. In our Speedmaster 145.022 buyer’s guide, we give […]
My close colleague Hamilton Powell, who started the pre-owned watch retailer Crown & Caliber convinced me to do something I would normally not – which is to participate in an interview talking about my own personal watch collection. While Crown read more…
Five American presidents have owned the Corum Dollar watch and, at an event at the Flying Fish restaurant on Sydney’s Jones Bay Wharf on Wednesday evening, Corum COO Davide Traxler announced that President-elect Trump will be the sixth. He told the intimate crowd that a close mutual friend had arranged an association. We didn’t know quite what to do with this revelation – the news of Trump’s victory was literally only hours old – so we kept calm and called Eric Wind, VP and Senior Specialist of Watches at Christie’s. Wind has a keen interest in presidential timepieces and in his opinion, it’s certainly possible: “I’ve seen it written that Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton all owned Corum Coin watches, but I have not found independent verification for all of them. However in 2015, Antiquorum sold watches that were reportedly the spares made of the Johnson and Nixon watches.” Given this backstory, we’ve no reason to doubt that Trump will be the sixth (or perhaps seventh) President to own a Corum Coin watch. Traxler dropped this timely piece of news while he was in Sydney to celebrate the brand’s official arrival into the Australian market through Lion Brands.…
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Parmigiani Fleurier’s Tonda 1950 watches are the simplest of the 1950 family (a subset of the Tonda collection) and offer a number of different dial treatments for this range of simple, flat, elegant watches, which have in common the micro-rotor caliber PF701 (caliber PF701 is quite slim, at 30mm x 2.6mm, and has a platinum micro-rotor). Recently the Tonda 1950 has been offered with a meteorite dial – now in white, for the first time. At the same time as this version was announced, Parmigiani Fleurier also announced an aventurine glass-dial version, with a gem set bezel.
It’s one of the must-see destinations for watch lovers not only from the United States, but indeed, for watch-loving visitors from around the world: Wempe, on Fifth Avenue. What keeps clients coming, and coming back? There are not only collections of watches from the finest brands in the world – there’s also a level of care and commitment to old-school customer service that’s a gold standard in knowledge and professionalism.